Pillared

Enea Vico
Study of Capital and Column-Base
ca. 1555
drawing
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Gabriel Krammer
Corinthian Columns
1599
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Gabriel Krammer
Ionic Columns
1599
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Giovanni Maria da Brescia
Capital and Column-Base
from the Torre delle Milizie, Rome
ca. 1510-12
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Giovanni Maria da Brescia
Capital and Column-Base
from Basilica San Silvestro in Capite, Rome
ca. 1510-12
engraving
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Cronaca (Simone del Pollaiuolo)
Elevation of the Base of Hadrian's Mausoleum
ca. 1500
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Sebald Beham after Vitruvius
Study of Classical Column (called Doric)
1543
engraving
Graphische Sammlung, ETH Zürich

Wendel Dietterlin the Elder
Composite Capitals
1593
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Daniel Meyer
Composite Capitals
1612
etching
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder
Decorative Capitals
1572
(reprint of 1538 original)
woodcut
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig

Antonio Labacco (publisher)
Column-Base and Capital
1552
engraving
(book illustration)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Antonio Labacco (publisher)
Column-Base and Capital
1552
engraving
(book illustration)
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wulfenbüttel

Master G.A. with the Caltrop
Classical Capital
ca. 1550
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Agostino Musi after Sebastiano Serlio
Ionic Capital
1528
engraving
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Agostino Musi after Sebastiano Serlio
Corinthian Column-Base
1528
engraving
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Peter Flötner
Corinthian Capital and Column-Base
cva. 1530-40
woodcut
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Whilst the Peloponnesians were coming together in the isthmus, and when they were on their march before they brake into Attica, Pericles the son of Xantippus, who with nine others was general of the Athenians, which he saw they were about to break in, suspecting that Archidamus, either of private courtesy or by command of the Lacedaemonians to bring him into jealousy (as they had before for his sake commanded the excommunication), might oftentimes leave his lands untouched, told the Athenians beforehand in an assembly, "that though Archidamus had been his guest, it was for no ill to the state; and howsoever, if the enemy did not waste his lands and houses as well as the rest, that then he gave them to the commonwealth," and therefore desired "that for this he might not be suspected."  Also he advised them concerning the business in hand the same things he had done before, "that they should make preparations for the war and receive their goods into the city; that they should not go out to battle but come into the city and guard it; that they should also furnish out their navy, wherein consisted their power, and hold a careful hand over their confederates," telling them, "how that in the money that came from these lay their strength, and that the victory in war consisted wholly in counsel and store of money."

– from The Peloponnesian War as written by Thucydides (5th century BC) and translated by Thomas Hobbes (1628) and edited by David Grene (1959)